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Comment on What we can learn from Pixar by Isabelle https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/what-we-can-learn-from-pixar/#comment-181
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:38:27 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=159#comment-181I like it! And I agree. And what I always credited Pixar’s innovative nature with was their safe creative space, something, again, we can all learn from. I remember an interview with Lasseter a little while ago in which he talked about how he encourages everyone at Pixar, and now all of Disney animation, to take risks. And sometimes it doesn’t work (I forget which film – i think it was princess and the frog – he scrapped the film and made everyone start over because it wasn’t working), but at least people are constantly creating and he created that safe space.
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Comment on Washington Square by literaturesalon https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/washington-square/#comment-155
Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:50:41 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-155Interesting post on Henry James. I found this post by following the link to your new blog (I was initially interested in your thread about how the internet will change the face of publishing). In some ways, I think that Henry James is a very psychological novelist, but it’s more the psychology of details, of understated gestures, of glances–like in Proust–than of motivations, as you rightly state.
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Comment on The Art of Teaching Part 3: Observation by David Thomas https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/the-art-of-teaching-part-3-observation/#comment-154
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:07:02 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-154In a sense the same method is used in the social science with the things being observed expanded from natural objects, actions and processes to human objects, actions, processes and communications. This class could ask students to observe a Catholic Mass, a college graduation, a wedding ceremony, a jury trial or read an imperial edict or a play. The point is the student would be asked to make observations, inferences and formulate a hypothesis. The conclusions could be wildly off, but the point again is not to teach content but to teach the notion that all “things” need to be examined in a disciplined way. This, I think, would set the stage perfectly for High School as students would have honed the necessary skills to critically read both primary and secondary texts, to think about the importance of archeological materials and the role of sacred texts.
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Comment on The Art of Teaching Part 2: Creativity by David Thomas https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/the-art-of-teaching-part-2-creativity/#comment-153
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:56:16 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/the-art-of-teaching-part-2-creativity/#comment-153Creativity has too frequently been viewed as a requirement for only artists. It seems that once children have finished finger painting and making objects out of pipe cleaners and squares of colored paper we call it a day and move on and in its place start teaching all of the content that we might call English or Social Studies. I would rather see creativity as the essential component of all truly successful endeavors; in other words it makes more sense to use creativity based on the notion of creating, to create a work, something original, a new approach to an old problem. In that light plenty of class time could be devoted to turning problems inside out, to solving math problems with rods, to performing science experiments with only a tool or two, to mixing up new paint colors, to making paper and trying to create a printing system. To create a generation of students who, unburdened by watered down content, can approach real content in higher grades with a highly developed sense of being creative would bean educational revolution.
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Comment on Washington Square by The future of Cover Art « Comparative Blogging Foundation https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/washington-square/#comment-142
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:17:47 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-142[…] coverless. Should you choose to download (for free… legally) a classic such as say… Washington Square by Henry James, you will find (at least in the case of the iBooks App for iProducts) there is no cover design. […]
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Comment on The Politics of Elissa by huysmans https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/the-politics-of-elissa/#comment-141
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:23:40 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-141Yup, that is exactly what this essay was written for.
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Comment on The Politics of Elissa by Des Esseintes https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/the-politics-of-elissa/#comment-140
Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:34:33 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-140I doubt you even look at this site anymore, seeing as how there aren’t any new posts, but I have to ask if you attended Washington university in St. Louis and took a course on comparative literature from dr. Kafalenos. The reason I ask is because this essay on Dido/Elissa is precisely the one I am writing right now and you are using all the texts we have read. It would be crazy coincidence if you didn’t go there. Anyway, nice essay, Qart Hadast is phoenician by the way not arabic, its actually where the name carthage comes from.
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Comment on The Art of Talent: Evgeny Kissin by David Thomas https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/the-art-of-talent-evgeny-kissin/#comment-125
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:19:00 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=88#comment-125It is dangerous to conflate music with other art forms since a composition requires performance. Chopin’s etudes are only ink on paper until they are performed and all you need to do is here a piano roll performance of a piece and then compare that to a pianist to realize instantly what the performer is contributing. A music teacher of mine used to say that the composer and the performer are two halves of a whole. I am not so sure about other art forms and their respective dependence on a susequent act, like reading the novel. It seems to me that this relationship between creator and performer varies by genre.

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Comment on The Art of Talent: Evgeny Kissin by Pages tagged "opinion" https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/the-art-of-talent-evgeny-kissin/#comment-123
Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:16:44 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=88#comment-123[…] bookmarks tagged opinion The Art of Talent: Evgeny Kissin saved by 3 others MattKixmules bookmarked on 03/07/09 | […]
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Comment on A quick note on blogging as it relates to the Comparative Blogging Foundation by Lucas https://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/a-quick-note-on-blogging-as-it-relates-to-the-comparative-blogging-foundation/#comment-116
Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:22:54 +0000http://comparativeblogging.wordpress.com/?p=23#comment-116Hi there! I enjoyed reading this – I like the questions you’re asking about the ways that blogs can be a new artform, enable new forms of subjectivity:

“a multimodal communicative art form that can engage the creators and observers in a completely new way, one that makes them lose the uniqueness of their role in this equation, that as the creator or as the observer”